Introductory
Guide to the Living Costs and Food Survey/Expenditure and Food Survey

This guide is designed to pull together
essential information about the Expenditure and Food Survey deposited by both
the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Department for Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Although the guide draws heavily on pre-existing
documentation it is intended to supplement rather than replace the user guides
produced by the Office for National Statistics, which should be considered definitive.
Users should therefore consult the user guides before using the data.

EFS Teaching Dataset

An EFS
2005-2006 teaching dataset is available (Study Number: 6117). The dataset
can help class tutors to incorporate empirical data into their courses and thus
develop students' skills in quantitative methods of analysis and their knowledge
of large-scale government surveys.